A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 551
were 5 to 6 feet in height, .sliowingthat at a very remote date tlie science of archconstruction was known to the Etniscans. Coming to the second class, we gather frommeagi-e descriptions in Vitruvius (Chap. VII.,Book 4) that the Etruscan temjile had tliree eel-las, the centre one wider than the… … ETRUSCAN ARCHITECTURE says, In front of tiiesc, members are fixed, andover these the tympaimm of the pediment eitherof masonry or timlier, and makes no mention ofthe terra cotta ornaments of wiiich .so many iiavebeen found, and which, by their variety and theirbeauty botli in colour and form, give…
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